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What follows is the series of text messages I received from my wife from last Tuesday when the Virginia Earthquake struck and sent a tremor through Toronto, where we live: ********************************************************************** did u feel that??? the earthquake! a tremor just passed through toronto! it was wild, my desk drawer suddenly swung open like magic! and…

National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake The vibrations from Tuesday’s 5.8 earthquake in Virginia were keenly felt at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park and animal care staff recognized changes in animal behviour. GREAT APES The earthquake hit the Great Ape House and Think Tank Exhibit during afternoon feeding time. About five to ten seconds…

I actually like Christie Blatchford. I think she’s one of the best newspaper columnists working in Canada and have always admired the courage she’s shown in displaying sentiment in her work. When she writes about the military, police officers or her pets– subjects she seems most passionate about– she’s never been afraid to get a…

Dictionary of Dream Interpretation in which Celebrities are Featured Snooki: To dream of Snooki betokens much distress, and evil-minded persons will seek to injure you in your best work. Ill health is foreboded and despondent hopes will grow gloomier. You will make a failure of life through egotism and selfishness, and anticipated pleasures will be…

For a long time, I believed that my nephews Carter and Oliver, now aged 9 and 7, adored me. But that seems to have morphed into a mocking contempt now that they’ve figured out that I’m subordinate to them and not the other way around. I believe this inevitable downfall was set in motion when…

The streets were slow and humid and the lost men of Queen East were in full bloom. Wandering slowly with heavy, droopy moustaches and sloped-shoulders they wore novelty t-shirts that said things like Dog Father or All This Could Be Yours. A bronzed, middle-aged woman who had the look of a heavy drinker still able…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund ********************************************************** Day 2 Heidi been seeing lots of bats lately. On black wing they swoop down at Heidi, making terrible noise of fang death!! All Heidi see are blood-rat eyes of bats and feel their cold stink breath!! Just horrible!! But Heidi not…

The other day while taking my sick dog for a walk, it was pointed out to me by a 55 year-old lesbian who was also taking her dog for a walk, that she and I looked alike. Both of us had short, salt and pepper hair, wore one of those straw hipster hats, a plaid…

A friend of mine used to work at the Bank of Montreal where she helped provide technical support for on-line banking. One of the things she liked to do when killing time on the job was to scroll through the answers people provided to the security questions the bank used as a safeguard for each…